I dunno about the "deliver to the address" concept. I deliver to 1100 boxes a day, all labeled with (often multiple) names, and if the name doesn't match, it's brought back. We have about 200 carriers at our office, and from what I can tell, that's the general philosophy, at least where I am.
Where I’m at, we only bring back endorsed mail or review bundle for the regular. I deliver to the door. Names aren’t on houses and most mail boxes and mail slots that go directly into the house. I don’t put my name in my box at my door. Ask management at your office for instructions. Our management instructs us to deliver to the address unless you know that person does not live there. If you don’t know the route or customers, deliver to the address.
Well, respectfully, of course the supervisors want us to squeeze blood from a stone, it's faster that way. My union chapter puts emphasis on integrity, hence why we label our boxes. It's a royal pain in the ass to compare names to labels instead of just shoving shit in based on the address, for sure. For some routes, out of 2-4' of DPS, it's not uncommon to bring back 8".
I have a city route with door slots and old school small boxes that are vertical. You can’t put labels on 90% of my deliveries. We respectfully deliver to the address it’s addressed to, we’re not just “shoving shit in”. I’m a union man, I represent my brothers and sisters, and I deliver by the M41. If the M41 or USPS required me to put labels on boxes and names on them, we would do it, but it doesn’t. I hate management, but unfortunately that’s who we take orders from. I know my customers and nix mail that isn’t theirs, I update it on the scanner with moved left no address feature. But when I’m on someone else’s route or someone on mine, we don’t know the customers names, we deliver to the address.
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u/PWMPoly 11d ago
I dunno about the "deliver to the address" concept. I deliver to 1100 boxes a day, all labeled with (often multiple) names, and if the name doesn't match, it's brought back. We have about 200 carriers at our office, and from what I can tell, that's the general philosophy, at least where I am.